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Mining Madagascar - forests, communities and Rio Tinto's white wash
(PDF† 63K) October 2007
This briefing highlights how, contrary to the claims of Rio Tinto and the World Bank, Rio Tinto's mining project is in fact creating economic insecurity, social upheaval, and environmental destruction in Madagascar, depriving local people of their land and livelihoods while yet to demonstrate any real benefits in return.
Corporate Conquest
(PDF† 150K) September 2006
Why the UK and its EU partners must stop forcing Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) upon developing countries.
Why no deal is better than a bad deal at the WTO
(PDF† 72K) December 2005
This briefing note explains why Friends of the Earth, People & Planet, WDM, War on Want and Greenpeace are concerned with the deal being discussed at the WTO's Ministerial.
Barclays, human rights and the trans Thai-Malaysia gas pipeline
(PDF† 74K) September 2005
This briefing describes some of the ways Barclays has broken its own rules and has infringed its own human rights policies to fund the trans Thai-Malaysia gas pipeline.
Corporate Accountability
(PDF† 230K) April 2005
A detailed account of the Corporate Accountability movement, and the legislation that Friends of the Earth wants to see implemented at the UK, EU and International level.
Barclays and the financing of the Narmada Dams
(PDF† 42K) January 2005
This briefing looks at Barclays' involvement in the Narmada Dam Project and the principles and laws it breaches in doing so.
Barclays and Omkareshwar Dam
(PDF† 45K) October 2004
This briefing reveals how Barclays are set to fund a dam with huge environmental and social consequences that violates their green finance principles.
The WTO, GMOs and democracy
(PDF† 153K) November 2004
This briefing introduces UK MPs and MEPs to Friends of the Earth's concerns over the US Government's WTO GM dispute with the EU. It also highlights wider problems with the WTO and the way it functions,
as well as offering ways solutions can be supported.
What you need to know about NAMA
(PDF† 52K) October 2004
Friends of the Earth International explain why the WTO's Non-Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) negotiations threaten the environment and development.
Every Little Hurts: Why Tesco needs to be tamed
(PDF† 60K) June 2004
This briefing sets out some of the growing evidence that Tesco's success is coming at a high price to local communities, UK farmers and overseas workers, in stark contrast to the Tesco's claims.
Cadbury's chocolate and palm oil
(PDF† 119K) May 2004
Confectionary giant Cadbury-Schweppes considers itself an international leader in corporate social responsibility, however this briefing shows that their use of palm oil can leave a bitter taste.
HSBC - financing forest destruction and social conflict
(PDF† 156K) May 2004
This briefing reveals that customers and shareholders of HSBC are unaware that through their mortgages, overdrafts and shares they have unwittingly financed companies destroying rainforests and damaging communities in Indonesia.
AGM Season 2004
(PDF† 133K) April 2004
An introduction to Friends of the Earth's activities at Annual General Meetings throughout Spring 2004. Contains a list of the companies being targetted and the reasons why.
GATS in Wales: Understanding the General Agreement on Trade in Services
(PDF† 140K) April 2004
This briefing looks at how GATS will affect the powers of the Welsh Assembly and what action the Assembly can take to protect its ability to regulate in the public interest.
Rio Tinto - What's yours is mine
(PDF† 114K) April 2004
A media briefing looking at two examples of the company's activities which clearly illustrate why concerns about the company's greenwash persist.
Barclays and the Karahnjukar project
(PDF† 154K) January 2004
Exposes how Barclays bank are helping to arrange a loan to an Icelandic power company to construct the countries biggest hydropower project in the Iceland Central Highlands, the second largest remaining wilderness area in Europe, in apparent breach of the banks own green project finance principles.
UK plc in Latin America
(PDF† 766K) September 2003
The EU, backed heavily by the UK, continues to push hard for a new WTO investment agreement while British multinationals plough on with the kind of investment such an agreement would promote. Friends of the Earth exposes the plans, demands the accountability of those responsible, and shows up the WTO investment agreement myth.
Investment and the WTO - Busting the myths
(PDF† 425K) June 2003
This briefing aims to explode some of the myths surrounding FDI and the 'benefits' of establishing an investment agreement in the WTO.
Open wide, this won't hurt a bit
(PDF† 324K) June 2003
This briefing is a beginner's guide to corporate globalisation, looking at some of the impacts of corporate globalisation, reasons why it's happening.
GM trade war looms
(PDF† 241K) May 2003
The WTO's Dispute Resolution Mechanism decides who wins and who loses in international trade wars. This briefing exposes how it works, and explores what may happen following the US complaint against the EU over GM food.
Liberalising trade in services
(PDF† 245K) January 2003
Friends of the Earth's response to the DTI consultation condemns the limited timeframe the DTI gave for responses and the lack of transparency in negotiations. Our response reflects on examples of previous liberalisation in the UK (eg. the privatisation of rail, the recent maritime oil disasters) to highlight the problems with this agreement.
Friends of the Earth's evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee
(PDF† 140K) July 2006
Friends of the Earth's submits evidence on 'International Trade & the World Trade Organisation' to the Enviromental Audit Committee.
Ethical Investment
(Powerpoint file 141K) March 2005
Presentation on whether ethical investment can deliver sustainable development. For a downloadable copy of this presentation please contact the corporates team.
Risky Business - An Environmentalist Viewpoint
October 2000
This paper briefly explores the issues of sustainable business and environmental risk, offers proposals for reforms to the market and regulatory framework to internalise environmental risk within corporations.
What do NGOs want from corporate performance-related information?
September 2000
Presentation to Business in the Environment Conference, A Measure of Progress, at the British Library by Duncan McLaren.
Undercutting Africa
(PDF† 1392K) October 2008
This report shows how Economic Partnership Agreements threaten forests and biodiversity in Africa, and the livelihoods of forest-dependent communities.
Development recast?
(PDF† 1.67M) October 2007
A review of the impact of the Rio Tinto ilmenite mine in Southern Madagascar.
Shell: Use your profit to clean up your mess
(PDF† 1.26M) February 2007
Report on how Shell should fund local solutions for environmental and social destruction caused by its projects
The Happy Planet Index
(PDF† 1664K) July 2006
A new global measure of progress, the ‘Happy Planet Index', measures the environmental cost with which countries deliver lives of different length and happiness to reveal for the first time that happiness doesn't have to cost the Earth.
A Big Deal? Corporate Social Responsibility and the Finance Sector in Europe
(PDF† 360K) December 2005
This report discusses the limitations of current voluntary initiatives to manage the negative social and environmental impacts generated by the financial sector in both developed and developing countries.
Can't see the forest for the TR€£$
(PDF† 1450K) November 2005
This report looks at how trade talks to open up markets for timber and wood products could speed up destruction of the world's forests, devastating the livelihoods of millions of the poorest people in the world and undermining efforts to tackle climate change.
Flagship or Failure?
(PDF† 755K) November 2005
This report looks at the UK Government's implementation of the OECD guidelines and its approach, through those guidelines, to corporate accountability.
Hidden Voices - The CBI, corporate lobbying and sustainability
(PDF† 563K) July 2005
This report raises serious concerns about how the CBI exaggerates the cost of regulation, and the benefits that it can have.
Lessons not learned- the other Shell Report
(PDF† 505K) June 2005
This report tells the real story of living on Shell's doorstep around the world, that Shell's reports fail to mention.
Pumping poverty: DfID and the oil industry
(PDF† 582K) March 2005
This report investigates the role of British overseas development aid in facilitating oil development. It finds that far from helping the worlds poorest people, such aid often serves instead its wealthiest corporations, leaving the poor worse off than before.
Beyond Oil: the oil curse and solutions for an oil free future
(PDF† 735K) January 2005
This report brings together information and contacts needed to stop the conflict and destruction that the oil economy generates at every stage of its cycle.
The Sakhalin II PSA - a Production 'Non-Sharing' Agreement
(PDF† 365K) November 2004
This report analyses the revenue distribution of the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East.
Behind the shine - the other Shell report
(PDF† 840K) June 2004
Highlights Shell's poor performance in the area of corporate social responsibility using accounts from people who live next door to Shell around the world.
BAT's big wheeze
(PDF
The alternative British American Tobacco social and environmental report.
GATS: its local impact in England
(PDF† 830K) January 2003
This report examines the aspects of GATS that relate to five key areas of activity for local government in England - planning, regeneration, green procurement, environmental protection and transport - to identify the potential impact.
Towards sustainable economies: challenging neoliberal economic globalisation
(PDF† 59K) January 2003
Friends of the Earth International report setting out guidelines for developing fair and sustainable economics.
Sale of the centuary? The WTO's 4th Ministerial
(PDF† 686K) November 2001
This series of five reports from Friends of the Earth International examines the theories, impacts and institutions of world trade, outlines the proposals for trade negotiations in various sectors at the 4th WTO ministerial meeting, and assesses the influence of transnational corporations.
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